about my work
My practice is one of endless curiosity, exploring the intersection of memory, materials, and the natural world. At the center of this work is an intimate reflection on being a human animal: small within the enormity of things, and inescapably part of them. The vast processes of nature humble and orient me. My work tries to hold that scale, finding within it something immediate and beyond time. It's an ongoing attempt to pay attention, look carefully, stay present — and make work that speaks to the interconnection between the natural world and human presence.
Charles Kurre is a multi-discipline artist based in Arizona. A self-taught naturalist and backcountry guide, Kurre's abstracted topographies embody a lifetime of intimacy with the natural world. Working across photography, drawing, collage, three-dimensional construction, and works on canvas, Kurre explores time's drift, the erosion of memory, and the texture of lived experience through nature's lens of connectivity and transformation.
A past member of the Eye Lounge Collective, he is an ACA Project Grant recipient curating Language/Image/Object for the ACA Traveling Exhibition Program; L/I/O explored the intersection of visual and verbal expression. His work has appeared in Abstractics Journal, New American Paintings, and Phoenix Home & Garden, with reviews in Art News, Art & Antiques, Dialogue, New Art Examiner, and Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, and Chicago Reader
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